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Devour the Sun (feat. Seedy Mitchell)

from The Incident at Black Lake by All Else Fails

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Devour the Sun: This song is an allegory. A child from a beautiful nameless place travels across existence. It was born in warmth and life, from an engine of creation, and its only need is to share who it is with whatever it comes in contact with. As it travels, it leaves a piece of its radiance behind as a gift, a tiny slice of its essence that it shares with exuberance. It travels for years, shining its light on whatever it encounters, however, over the long years, it eventually forgets who it is, and with that, where it came from. The child drifts, older now, and comfortable at first to be pulled along by the forces around it, buffeted across the ether, fulfilled by the simple act of experience. Over time however, a discontent begins to grow. Who was it? There must be a purpose beyond drifting endlessly in the dark. Its questions turn to screams and cries in the heavens, but the black has no answers. Eventually, devoid of solace, it’s voice becomes quiet and its mind despondent. It slowly diminishes, becoming a faded husk, lost inside its own ruminations, until one day it enters the atmosphere of a nameless biome. For the first time in years, it sees its own reflection. Cast back unto itself by the starry eyes of a young girl, undistorted by expectation, its fragmented and damaged memories return. It knows once again that long ago it was a star, a sun, burning bright in the deepest reaches of the universe. In this child’s eye, the light that was once a star becomes an experience; bright, beautiful, and warm, and then a memory; comforting and soft. For a moment, the light knows peace in the surety of itself, but the child sleeps, the memory fades, and the light from the long dead star is lost forever in nothingness. Musically this song follows an unconventional narrative. It ebbs and flows, thrash riffs turn to piano-esq clean parts. Soaring melodies devolve into full bodied guttural torment before becoming aethereal whispers.

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Rage,
Rage across the endless night
Lost,
separate from my soul by a lifetime spent wandering alone,
I have been gone longer than I ever was at home.
The fear of a lost spark drifting in the black,
I pretend like I could, but there is no going back.
No voice, no form, no day no night, I appear to be alive but I'm a corpse on the inside.
No recollection, no living past,
forever set adrift on the winds without a mast.
Forgotten purpose, an empty shell.
Walking the edges of reality, lost within myself.
Am I just an ineffectual refrain?
Through the clouds she sees the starlit sky; faded and complacent.
I'm not feeling whole.
Submerged in darkness, it seems I've been put out to sea,
Woe is me, the once catalytic converter of oblivion into being,
Since thriving from my generous nature,
You watched my evolution in disgust and then were swallowed up by your own inexorable arrogance.
Now I am nullity,
Now I am just a beacon of hate in the ultimate unending void,
But in my defense,
I create to destroy.
Destroy the heavens,
Destroy intent,
I'll drag perpetually in Ether to my hate's content.
Devise ambition,
Devise a cure,
Design a past I can't recall until I feel I'm pure.
Am I just an ineffectual refrain?
Through the clouds she sees the starlit sky; faded and complacent.
I'm not feeling whole.
Headspace, is vast and lacks allure,
Trapped in the expanse of a moment, I've awakened and I can't see the end.
This place is past the absolute.
Consumed by what we fear,
consumed by what I fear.
Only in the final moments do I comprehend what I am; the fading light of a long dead star.
reflected in the stare of a child, but when she sleeps I'll be gone forever, lost to terror.
Remembered nevermore.
Did I ever have a chance to fly?

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from The Incident at Black Lake, released September 30, 2022

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All Else Fails Edmonton, Alberta

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